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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15
Bored by Ants.

The most dreaded insect invader is the
white ant. In Africa their houses are
dome-shaped mounds, often eighteen
feet high. These insects erect pyra-
mids one thousand times higher than
themselves. The ants in their travels
so conceal their approach that their
presence is not expected until the dam
age is done. They usually tunnel into
any object which they attack, often re-
ducing it to a mere shell. In this way
they have been known to ascend within
the leg of table, devour the contents
of box upon it, and descend through a
tunnel bored in another leg, all in one
night. An officer of the English army,
while calling upon some ladies in Cey-
Ion, was startled by rumbling sound.
The ladies started with alright, and
the next instant they stood with only
the sky above them; the roof had fallen
in and lay all about, leaving them
miraculously unharmedl The ants had
made their way up through the beams,
following them out until a greater part
of the frame work of the house was
ready to fall at the slightest shock
Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15
agricultural.
Get Ready for 1t.

Haying is coming right on, and now
it looks as if there is good deal of
grass which will need cutting in week.
Hoeing also needs to be done. Verify
this is " crowding season." OF course
the farmer has used and will use some
of that "leisure time" which some
writer's tell so much about the farmers
having, to get the tools ready for use,
and not have to stop nor wait for them
when the haying is ready to be done.
Have them all ready for business, so
when one starts in there need be no
waiting and waste of valuable time. to
get the tools in working order.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15
Knows His Own Business Best.

Some writers in the agricultural press
are seemingly very fond of telling
farmers what they should have, and do,
and be. They should have this tool
and that implement, and should do this
and not leave that undone. Now
farmers should have what they can
afford to buy, and must suffer the in
convenience of doing without what
they cannot afford, unless they choose
to go into debt for what they cannot
pay for or afford to buy, and then they
will probably find that something of a
bother before they get through with it,.
The intelligent farmer knows his own
circumstances better than any one else
can tell him, and knows better what he
can afford to have and what he must
do without. And probably this is the
case with other people.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15

"FoR years." writes correspond
ent of the Country Gentleman, " l have
cured warts very easily on all animals,
no matter where located, by applying
butyr of anthony with feather two
or three times at intervals of two
or three days. If the warts are dry
scalded, scrape them lightly at first.
1t simply dries the wart down to hard
ness, when it drops off without leaving
soreness or irritation. The best milk
ing COW that | have | purchased out of
drove of beef cattle on account of her
superiority in having all the excellent
milking points, and the discovery that
her teats were literally covered with
pointed warts, which / had no doubt was
the reason why she had been fattened
and sold"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15
Arsenites against Insects.

The little blue-black beetle which
greatly Injuries grapes early in the
spring, by eating out the buds, is the
grape flea beetle, Holtico chalybea. 1t
belongs to the leaf-eating chrysomelid@,
and like all the others of the family eats
foliage not only as grub or larva but as
mature beetle. The name was given to
the family because of the brilliant me-
tallic hues which often characterize the
beetles. This grape flea beetle is
little premature, as it comes before the
foliage, and so has to take to the buds.
Later, the grubs skeletonize the leaves
and do much damage, though as the
plants are much more able to stand the
defoliation they often suffer far less
from the grubs than from the beetles.
Our experiments here show that Paris
green or the kerosene and soap emul-
sion will destroy the grubs on the leaves
and the green will destroy the beetles.
In using green remember that dilute
mixture is far more safe and just as eff
fective. Last year we succeeded with
half a pound to one hundred gallons of
water, which will never injure foliage,
whereas a stronger mixture often de-
stroys the leaves. Our experience
again last season showed with emphasis
the value of the arsenites to protect
against the Goblin moth. Use either
Paris green or London purple, one
pound to one hundred gallons of water,
and apply with force-pump with cyclone
nozzle about the second week after the
trees blossom, when the apples are the
size of pea. Two mistakes are some
times made-tirst, the mixture is too
strong; second, it is deferred too long,
until the Larvae have passed into the fruit
out of reach of the poison. Last year
trees once treated were entirely free
from the insects, or at least practically
so, as repeated examinations failed to
find any. Adjacent trees not treated
were so affected that in trees loaded with
fruit it was difficult to find sufficient
healthy apples to exhibit at the fair.
This application also destroys at the
same time the pernicious leaf-roller, the
canker-worms and all other leaf-eating
insects that prey upon apple foliage
early in the season. | doubt if any
thing else in the way of insect destruc-
ton will give such decided returns as
this spraying of apple and pear-trees in
spring with the arsenites. The total
cost per tree will not exceed five
cents,-ProteSsOr 4. J, Cook, Michigan
agricultural College.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15
Some Truth and Some Untruth.

Dr. Hoskins writes as follows in the
Ne,C England Farmer: " Every Ameri-
can farming family, to live up TO its
privileges, should have political and
general newspaper, religious paper, a
literary paper or periodical and an agri-
cultural paper. But how many farmers,
even in New England, would not bel
low with dismay and wrath at the
wasteful expense such an invest
ment as this would be annually Yet
unquestionably this is the very cheapest
of all ways to civilize, educate and de-
velop the good and valuable qualities of
all the members of any family. The
expense would be, perhaps, from six to
ten dollars year. The money profit
alone would be vastly greater than on
any other possible investment of such
sum. But the large majority of the
American people to-day do not see, and
cannot be made to see, the value of that
home education which comes from a
supply of good reading matter" There
is much truth in these sentiments, but
we think DR.. Hoskins misrepresents
the intelligence of New England farm
ers. We have not visited many farm
ers' homes in northern Vermont, where
he resides; but wide personal ac-
quaintance with farmers in southern
Vermont and New Hampshire, as well
as throughout Massachusetts, Connecti-
cut and Rhode Island, enables us to
state that there are hundreds if not
thousands of farmers in this section
who think SO to $50 year modest
investment for newspapers and periodi-
Gals. The number of farmers who take
daily paper in section where it can
be delivered promptly is astonishingly
large. Many farmers subscribe for six
to twelve periodicals, including Har-
per'S Monthly or the Century and the
Youths Companion, and it is we'll
known fact to the professios that the
larger part of the circulation of re-
ligious papers is among farmers and
country people. The reason why agri-
cultural journals failed to reach large
circulation in the past and why so few
achieve this now was and is primarily
due to poor editing, an unattractive
makeup, unreasonable topics pre-
scented in an uninteresting manner, and
lack of business ability, enterprise and
push in introducing the paper to the
public. No article, even of intrinsic
merit, will sell itself until the public is
informed about it.-Homesteod.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15
Boys Leisure Hours.

A boy was employed in a LAWYERS
office, and he had the daily paper to
amuse himself with. He began to study
French, and at the little desk became a
fluent reader and writer of the French
language. He accomplished this by
laying aside the newspaper and taking
up something not so amusing. but far
more profitable. A coachman was often
obliged to wait long hours while his
mistress made calls. He determined to
improve the time. He found a small
volume containing the Eclogues of
Virgil, but could not read, so he pur-
chased Latin grammar. Day by day
he studied this and finally mastered its
intricacies. His mistress came behind
him one day, as he stood by the horses
waiting for her, and asked him what he
was so intently reading. Only bit
of Virgil, my lady," She mentioned
this to her husband, who insisted that
David should have teacher to instruct
him. In few years David became
learned man, and was for many years
a useful and beloved minister of Scot
land. A boy was told to open and shut
the gates to let the teams out of an iron
mine. He sat on log all day by the
side of the gate. Sometimes an hour
would pass before the teams came, and
this he employed so well that there was
scarcely any fact in history that escaped
his attention. He began with little
book on English history that he found
on the road. Having learned that thor
oughly, he borrowed of a minister
" Goldsmith's History of Greece"
This good man became greatly inter-
ested in him and lent him books, and
was often seen sitting by him on the
log conversing with him about the peo-
pie of ancient times. Boys, it will pay
to use your leisure hours well.-Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15

have diarrhea of a yellowish color
and are very thirsty. have at last
found cure. So soon as l see a droop-
ing one give it a small half teaspoon
full of hyposulphite of soda in two
tablespoons of water dissolved, and
repeat the dose daily for three days.
AS the sick birds will not eat, give
scalded milk with little red pepper
and powdered chalk, pouring it down
their necks twice day. If they will
eat, give soft food and little charcoal.
My hens are not lousy; they roost on
cedar poles.-MrS. e. T. MoUer, IN
HOlneStend
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15
fer tbe CHILDREN.
The BIue-Jay.

Like rustling bits Of paper they cling,
The dead oak leaves,
To boughs where the rain-thrush used to sing
In the summer ewes.
And scattered acorns have kept their hold,
As If lOath to fall,
And, bark, hear through the frosty cold
The blueJay's call.
Blue as the air is the calling jay,
And straight flies he
As an azure blossom torn away
From "A windblown tree.
He has been to look for cracks and chinks
In the big corn.bin,
And Is laughing to think how the farmer thinks
lie can't reach in
But he knows he can and screams and calls
And laughs, Ho! ho!"
And pecks at an acorn, down it falls
Does he heed It? No.
Yet the little oak-nut. ripe and brown,
lie does not see
Nor heed, may some fine day be grown
To great tree.
Mrs. clara Doty Dodge, in our LHtle Men and Wome,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15

A FEW years ago the Canadians were
behind the New Workers in cheese
making. They employed inspectors to
go around among the factories and
point out defects. They are now try
ing to get government grant of $4,000
TO give exhibitions and prizes and inn
prove the make of Canadian cheese
still further. These are good examples
for American cheese-makers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15

A LIVING by dyeing was made by the
Crosby girls, heroines of prize story
which tells in delightful style the merits
of Diamond Dyes and the advantages
of using them. Send for Diamond Dye
book to Wells, Richardson & Co., Bur-
lington, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15

AN ERRAND OF MERCY.-Go at
once to your druggists and get bottle
of Neurotic Oil. 1t will conquer rheu-
matism and neuralgia and bring JOY to
all who use it, A quick and sure cure
for toothache. Price twenty-five cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15
advertisements.
Rheumatism

10 Is an established fact that Hoods Sar.
saparilla has proven an invaluable remedy
in many severe cases Of rheumatism, effect
ing remarkable cures by its powerful action
in correcting the acidity of the blood which
is the cause of the disease, and purifying
and enriching the vital fluid.
10 is certainly fair to assume that what
Hoods Sarsaparilla has done for others IL
will do for you. Therefore, If you suffer
the pains and aches of rheumatism give
this potent remedy a fair trial.
A Positive Cure.
"I was troubled very much with rheuma.
tism in my hips, ankles, and wrists. 1
could hardly walk, and was confined to my
bed q good deal of the time. Being rec
commended to try Hoods Sarsaparilla,
took four bottles and am perfectly well.
/ cheerfully recommend Hoods Sarsaparilla
as one of the best blood purifiers in the
world" w. F. WooD, Bloomington, Ill.
For Twenty Years
Ihave been afflicted with rheumatism. Before
1883 found no relief, but grew worse. then
began taking Hoods Sarsaparilla, and it did
me more good than all the other medicine
ever had" ii. T. BALLOON, Shirley. Mass.
az suffered from what the doctors called
muscular rheumatism. 1 took Hoods Sar-
saparilla and am entirely cured" j. V. A.
PRoUDFooT, letter carrier, Chicago, Ill.
We shall be glad to send, free of charge
to all who may desire, a book containing many
additional statements Of cures by
Hoods SarsapariIIa
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15
BE Kind TO Your Horse.

Few creatures possess in a greater
degree the virtues of gratitude and
natural kindness than the horse. He
is slow to forgive an injury, but never
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15

A FACT to be remembered is that the
dearest stock horse any farmer can use
is scrub whose services can be had
for next to nothing.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15

Scene: Grammar class. Dialogue
between teacherand Johnnie. Teacher.
4" What is the future of he drinks?' -
Johnnie: " He is drunk
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15

TISSUE or printing paper is the best
for polishing glass or tinware.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-17
Intermarriage of Cousins.

81 think some of the worst specimens OF
humanity l ever saw are TO b. found right
here in Passaic county"
"What causes It'll"
"Poor food, exposure and internarriage.
The last is the chief cause of the trouble.
These mountaineers are all more or less re-
lated, and new blood is seldom introduced
into the race. They marry first cousins whose
parents were first cousins and so it has gone
for generations past. They live on pork and
.buckwheat cakes, sleep in slab novels, and
withal are dreadfuIy immoral. 1t is strange
that there are not more idiots among the
mountaineers, but there are enough. There
Is a little settlement only few miles from
here, don't know just where it is located.
but salesman told me last year that there is
only one strain Of blood in the whole place.
and that everybody has weak blue eyes and
fiaxen hair. They are all yellow and freckled,
thin and weak. He says that there are about
bali dozen idiots in the hamlet, and that the
people are the most wretched human beings
he ever saw. You ought to hunt them up u
ado you know anything ebout the origin of
the swarthy natives about the lakei"
"Not much, except that they are oil closely
related and have Indian blood in them Some
Of these families have existed here for nearly
three hundred years, and get their names
from old proprietors of the land | don't
want to be personal, but know one family
here, and big one, too, that gets its name
from a family for whom its ancestors worked
as slaves "-Newark Sunday Call
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-17

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The pain suffered by those who are at
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The relief that is given by the use of Lit
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by Hartz & Bahnsen.
Use Cressler's Wild Rose tooth powder
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Dyspepsia is the cause of many of the
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-17

'Thugism is on the increase said an off
Ger, land there is but little fairness shown in
fights nowadays. l don't know exactly to
what TO attribute it, but it is fact that in
ninety nine cases out of hundred where
arrests arc made by the police the complain
ant or the man who gets the worst of it de-
clares that the other fellow took him unaware
When was boy if one personhad anything
against another he went up to him and
'cussed him and dared him to take off his
coat and have square rough and tumble
fight Then the bystanders would form a
ring and by preventing anybody from inter
fering would see that the best man would win.
"But it is different now. If man has
anything in the way of a score to settle with
you he walks up alongside of you and hits
you on the jugular vein or over the eve with
his fist, sandbag or a pair of brass knuckles
or slungshot, and stretches you on the pave
ment. Men come into the Central station
every day and night with cut heads and faces
and say they were knocked out without provo
cation and before they could even get in
position to defend themselves Here is nice
question for philosophers: Are we getting to
be a nation of towards? This kind of fight
ing certainly argues to me that we are.
Saloon keepers and their bartenders do good
deal of this one sided smuggling They usually
have billy or a soda water bottle handy, and
when man comes in drunk without money
and makes himself disagreeable, they crack
away at his head, knock him down and drag
him out to the sidewalk. A bartender sal
to me last night: L take no chances If a
man comes in here and gets to monkeying or
makes a nuisance of himself l am not going
out from behind the bar to put him out ard
run the risk of getting done up i take a
bottle and hit him once, and then have no
trouble getting rid of him. n-kansas City
oil
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-17

The poet Mines had mind Of penetrating
sagacity and brilliant intuition. He was one
day told, by a friend, of the grief of poor
laundress, whose little boy had wandered off
to a common near London, ana there, with
another lad, mounted an old berse grazing
there, and taken ride, only to be arrested for
horse stealing The laundress had engaged
counsel for her son, but was in great doubt as
to the issue of the case. When the matter was
suggested to Mines, his fertile mind was at
once ready with an expedient.
'How old are the boys?' he asked, and was
told that they were about IL.
Then" said he, tell the laundress to take
care that they both appear at the trial in nice
clean pinafores"
The effect was almost magical. The two
little boys, i'll their nice pinafores, appeared in
the dock, and smiling gazed around the
court
What is the meaning of this'" asked the
judge, who had read the deposition, and now
came under the spell Of the pinafores.
"a case of horse stealing, my lordn
'Stuff and nonsensel" said his honor with
Indignation. Horse stealing, indeedI The
boys stole ridel"
Then the pinafores had almost an ovation
In court, and all wko had to do with the
prosecution were obliged to suffer from the
judges indignant commonly outh's Com
pauiOn
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-17

Perhaps one might theorize about charac.
ter from favorite drinks as much as from
''palmistry' or handwriting. Napoleon had
the heart, if ever man had, of a despot. He
drank strong black coffee, the sultan's drink,
and Chambertin, the rich wine of princes.
Cromwell and George of Clarence were both
ambitious with very opposite endings Both
loved Malmsey, which tradition asserts,
drowned the latter in the Jewel tower. Richie
lieu, the cold, crafty, calculating cardinal,
loved the thin red wine of Medoc The mag
nifcent and high spirited monarch, Henry
VIII, and Francis of France, loved what Fail
staff holds to be so inspiriting, namely, "a
good sherris sack" Edmund Kean's cratic,
magnificent genius and mad career were
nourished on brandy, which was, indeed, life
to the unhappy tragedian. Dogan tells us
that after his return, utterly broken, in 1927,
only constant glasses of drown brandy, very
hot and very strong" enabled him to get
through his scenes. Addison's polished equable
essays were written on moderate potations of
excellent claret. Charles Lamb, most per-
ennially charming of essayists, was thorough
Londoner in heart, and his favorite drink
was genuine London porter. Pitt and Eldcn,
who represented the older order of things,
both loved port, of which the chancellor could
drink three bottles.-Detroit Free Press
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-17

have been living this summer in what are
called in London residential flats, near Hyde
park There are several porters employed
about these flats One of them is New
York negro, who acquired his education and
knowledge of mankind as porter in Pull
man car and afterward in one of the New
York hotels. He wears double breasted
brass buttoned blue frock livery, with round
fiat topped cap, which has a square visor.
He is most imposing individual He has
the soft, melodious voice of the best type of
his race. He is clean, manly looking fellow.
He is the hero of all the cooks and house
maids of the entire fats. This porter is on
duty at night He always moves about
escorted by several admiring white servant
girls. He hardly ever has less than six in
his company. They stand in the most ad-
miring positions No Bunthorne was ever
surrounded by more complete postures of
alteration
But this porter takes all this admiration
gravely. He evidently has very poor opin-
ion of white people who run after negroes
He permits the servant girls to run after him,
but not much more All of the girls speak
to him with the prefix of Mr." before his
name None of the white porters are hon.
ored in this way. They are all called by
their first names, although two or three of
them are men advanced in life and the heads
of large families. The colored porter is al
ways Mr.. Brooks One of the tidiest of these
servant girls, born and reared in the eoun-
try and who has not yet lost the fresh color
acquired in her farm life, expressed the other
day fervent desire that when she had a
husband she hoped he would be Just such a
nice black man as Mr.. Brooks-T. C. Craw-
ford in New York World.